https://ruttplanerare.se/eskilstunaThe US eCommerce giant has bought three large plots of land in central Sweden. The company plans to build a total eight buildings, each with 25,000 square meters of floorspace. The company will give details in a press event held tomorrow in Sweden.

Plastic drinking straws are a common product filling the oceans with plastic waste. Finnish company Sulapac has now developed the world's first biodegradeable straw that will enter mass production in the spring of 2019.

Finland will deploy the European Union Galileo satellite positioning system in the beging of 2020. One of the key features of the new is better protection against signal jamming. This was recently brought up after wide scale GPS jamming operations in northern Finland during the NATO war games.

The heads of state of Russia and the United States of America will meet in Helsinki, the capital of Finland on July 16th. Finnish RPS Brewing is looking to cash in on the hype and is launching a beer just in time for the summit.

Global ride sharing giant Uber will continue operations in Finland on July 4th 2018. The return to the Finnish market was driven by the deregulation of the taxi market, which went into effect from beginning of the month.

Finnish telecom operator Elisa is the first in the world to begin offering commercial fifth generation mobile network services to customers. Elisa (then Radiolinja) was also host to the world's first commercial GSM network in 1991.